Luces del Norte: La Daga (Series #02) (Edition 8) (Hardcover)

from Castlelass

In the second book of His Dark Materials trilogy, we meet Will Parry, who commits a crime and escapes into another world, where he meets Lyra Belacqua. Lyra followed her father, Lord Asrial, to this world at the end of the first book. The plot centers around a search for Will's father and the tit...

from xiaomarlo

I really like these! Especially, of course, the abundance of animals/daemons (Will and his love of cats! So adorable!). Can't wait to read the third one. Wish I had known about these when they came out; I would've loved them when I was in my teens. I hear the movie of the first book sucks, so I w...

from eenerd

Second book in Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Will Parry is a tough, quiet, and smart boy who lives in our own world and finds himself an integral part of the drama unfolding between all of the worlds of the universe. He meets Lyra Silvertongue by accident and together they work to unrav...

from Smiler69

Weaving in and out of two universes, book 2 of the trilogy introduces a new protagonist who comes from "our" world of "today" as we know it. Will finds himself in a terrible bind when we meet him at the beginning of the book: he must make sure to find someone to take care of his mentally unstable...

from fiverivers

The only fault I can find with The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman, is its readership classification (ages 10-12). A children's novel this isn't. Plainly the marketing team didn't know what to do with a novel that put forward a child as the main character, erroneously assumed that Pullman's very ...